Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Naoyo Gemma

Takehiko Kawasaki

Norio Kaneko

Hidetoshi Nojiri

Koichiro Nakanishi

Masatake Akaike

Toshitsugu Morimoto

Atsushi Kandori

In order to provide a technology that does not require, in a probe, provision of a bias voltage storage unit and a communication unit and, in an apparatus main body, provision of a communication unit configured to communicate to/from the probe and a unit configured to control a bias voltage based on a value obtained by the communication, there is provided a probe including a plurality of cells, the cell including a first electrode and a second electrode disposed so as to be opposed to the first electrode across a gap. The plurality of cells include: a first cell configured to perform at least one of transmission or reception of an ultrasound wave; and a second cell in which pull-in occurs at a voltage lower than a pull-in voltage of the first cell and which is configured to be short-circuited at a time of the pull-in.

Probe and information acquiring device

Provided is a sheet material discrimination apparatus including: an impact force applying member for colliding with the surface of a sheet material, an impact force receiving member for receiving the impact force applying member through the sheet material, a detecting unit for outputting an electric signal corresponding to an impact force received by the impact force receiving member, and a cushioning material for absorbing the impact force transmitted to the detecting unit, wherein a support member having a bending rigidity higher than the bending rigidity of the detecting unit with respect to the impact force is arranged between the detecting unit and the cushioning material.

Sheet material discrimination apparatus, sheet material information output apparatus, and image forming apparatus

A signal output apparatus comprises an impact applying unit applying an impact to a sheet from the outside thereof, and a detection unit outputting a signal by the impact. An apparatus for determining the type of sheet comprises an impact applying unit applying an impact to a sheet from the outside thereof, and a detection unit outputting a signal by the impact, wherein the type of the sheet is determined based on the signal from the detection unit. An image forming apparatus comprises an impact applying unit applying an impact to a sheet from the outside thereof, and a detection unit outputting a signal by the impact. A method for determining the type of sheet comprises the steps of applying an impact to a sheet from the outside thereof, outputting a signal from a detection unit by the applying step, and determining the type of sheet based on the signal. An apparatus carries out the method for determining the type of sheet. An information output apparatus used in an image forming apparatus comprises an impact applying unit applying an impact to a target from the outside thereof, and a detection unit outputting information by the impact.

Signal output and image forming apparatus with method of judging sheet type by impact detection

Signal output apparatus, image forming apparatus and information output apparatus

A sheet material detecting device for identifying the material of a sheet by utilizing an impact applied to the sheet has an impact applying unit which is supported to be rotatable and shiftable toward the sheet, and applies an impact onto the sheet, an impact receiving unit which is supported to be rotatable and shiftable in a state of being in contact with the sheet onto which the impact has been applied, arranged opposite the impact applying unit with a gap permitting the passage of the sheet in-between, and receives via the sheet the impact applied by the impact applying unit onto the sheet, and a signal output unit which outputs a signal in response to the impact applied onto the sheet.

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Naoyo Gemma